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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rieux worried about?
(a) That the disease will get out of hand and kill half the population.
(b) That the disease will affect his wife.
(c) That the people will panic.
(d) That the trains will stop running.

2. What is M. Grand's job?
(a) He is a clerk at the hospital.
(b) He is a bank manager.
(c) He is Manager at the Municipal Office.
(d) He is a clerk in the Municipal Office.

3. What does Dr. Rieux think about the illness?
(a) He thinks it is plague.
(b) He thinks it is tuberculosis.
(c) He thinks it is an unknown disease.
(d) He thinks it is asthma.

4. Why does Rieux ask Tarrou to do this?
(a) Because he has terrible handwriting.
(b) Because he is too busy to do it himself.
(c) Because he wants to write an article about it for the Medical Journal.
(d) Because he doesn't speak English.

5. Why has the journalist Raymod Rambert come to Oran?
(a) To investigate the plague of rats in Oran.
(b) To investigate the welfare of Arabs in Oran.
(c) To interview the polic magistrate.
(d) To research suicide deaths in Oran.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interesting character enters the novel at this point?

2. How many people have contracted the disease and recovered?

3. Who is Jean Tarrou?

4. What is one aspect of the plague that Dr Rieux considers?

5. In what country is the story set?

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